Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Window on Eurasia: Turkey Reaffirms Its Support for Crimean Tatars and will Send Delegation to Occupied Peninsula

Paul
Goble

Staunton, November 11 – Even as
Moscow and the Russian occupation authorities continue their efforts to
disorder and oppress the Crimean Tatars, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlyut
Cavushoglu in the course of a meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko said Ankara will continue to work with Kyiv to defend that nation.

That delegation, like the Turkish
government as a whole, he continued, will coordinate closely with Kyiv and will
focus particularly on the status of the Crimean Tatars with whom Turkey is
linked by culture, religion and language. “Turkey, with the assistance of
Ukraine, will constantly stand with the Crimean Tatars.”